Recently, a friend gave me a hand-me-down kit filled with beautiful wooden games and brightly colored books that promises to teach my child to read. The phonics-based program, the company says, can be ...

Mallick is the author of Reimagine Inclusion and a workplace strategist. A few years ago, my mother’s home was flooded and very badly damaged. During a cold New England weekend, a pipe burst in the ...

If you haven’t seen it, there’s an unsettling two-minute video circulating online called “A Message from Ella.” A young girl stares anxiously into the camera as she explains to her parents how ...

As you teach your kids about money, one important concept is how to use credit responsibly. Adding your children as authorized users on your credit card is one way to teach sound credit ...

Election Day should be a national holiday. Parents should have the option to keep their children close as they make their way to the polls. It could be a matter of safety in swing states where ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...

Ten-month-old baby girl Brianna de Leon loves books. She is playing in her living room with her mother in Compton. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Recently, a friend gave me a hand-me-down kit ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...